22 holidays in 2020, 8 on weekends
Staff Reporter Published: 28 October 2019, 03:07 PM
| Updated: 28 October 2019, 03:15 PM
There will be 22 public holidays for next year, eight of which will fall on weekends.
The number of public holidays was approved in today’s cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Fourteen public holidays are general holidays, Cabinet Secretary Shafiul Alam said in a briefing. Among them, three holidays have coincided with weekends.
Additionally, there are eight holidays on executive orders, five of which have coincided with Fridays and Saturdays - general weekends in Bangladesh.
In 2019, only three of the public holidays coincided with weekends.
